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Albert "Tootie" Heath has died at age 88. He played drums with basically all the greats of the 1950s, '60s and beyond and is on the first albums that Nina Simone and John Coltrane made as bandleaders.
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Born in 1924 in Newark, N.J., Vaughan came up in the '40s, alongside bebop, a new jazz style she instantly took to. In the following decades, she proved to be one of the best singers of any genre.
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The El Paso Jazz Exchange spreads love of the music while educating the next generation.
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A New Mexico composer has begun performing a song about the forced removal of Navajo people from their homelands. It will last four-and-a-half years, with long silences between single notes.
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On Feb. 12, 1924, a sassy fusion of jazz and classical music debuted in New York, sparking a mutual exchange of ideas still debated today.
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Joshua Redman illustrates why he is one of today's best saxophonists.
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Seventy years ago, jazz great Charlie Parker played a plastic saxophone at what many call the greatest jazz concert ever. A new deluxe reissue of that recording is out now.
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Louis Armstrong had a chart-topping album out just last year, more than 50 years after his death.
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The Grammy-winning bassist, bandleader and broadcaster talks about his love for music, family ties in the jazz world, and the thrill of sitting in with Wynton Marsalis as a teenager.
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The Indian jazz fusion band stops by the Tiny Desk for a historical performance.